03/MAR/09 — 24/APR/09
Southbank Centre, London, UK

Sherbet Dab Swivel, a temporary outdoor sculpture installed on Festival Terrace until 24 April and active from 10am to 10pm every day. Taking part of its title from Cockney rhyming slang, Sherbet Dab Swivel converts a taxicab and other street apparatus into a new outdoor sculpture for London. inspired by many equestrian statues he found around the city, Japanese sculptor and musician Ujino based its form on a figure on horseback, metamorphosed — like a Transformer toy — into a twenty-first century monument to urban transport, complete with flashing lights and intermittent sounds created by Ujino's Rotators. (less info)